A: Hello everyone! Have you ever tried when typing a definitely correct word in Microsoft‚ but it says your word is wrong? Do you know why? It is because of the difference between British and American English. B: To begin with‚ let’s talk about history. In the past‚ the religions of the British & American were different. Christians(that is the Puritans) were persecuted by the other people. So some of them grouped together & went to America because they wanted to leave England. C: They
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Content American English…………………………………………………2 Lexical difference…………………………………………………4 Grammatical difference…………………………………………..6 Bibliography……………………………………………….8 Grammatical difference between British and American English. American English. In the early part of the seventeenth century English settlers began to bring their language to America‚ and another series of changes began to take place. The settlers borrowed words from Indian languages for
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American English and British English Communication may seem easy‚ but sometimes it is hard to understand between people even though they share the same language. American and British English have the same origin‚ which is the Elizabethan English. This means that Americans and the British speakers share the same language; but nowadays‚ these two varieties somewhat differ from each other. We can find both similarities and differences in both varieties. Even though American and British people can
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American and British English pronunciation differences From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Comparison of American and British English | American English British English | Computing | Keyboards | Orthography | Spelling | Speech | Accent Pronunciation | Vocabulary | American words not widely used in BritainBritish words not widely used in AmericaWords having different meanings in British and American English: A–L · M–Z | Works | Works with different titles
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social-cultural-geographical phenomenon. There is a deep relationship between language‚ culture and society. When we study a language‚ we have to study its dialects‚ register‚ slang‚ taboo‚ idiolects‚ etc. We can find the role of language and culture in The Parent Trap movie. The movie tells us about the differences culture of 2 girls who live in London and California. They were separated when they are baby. It was because their parents divorce. One of the differences is on the way they speak and pronounce the words
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Introduction A. Background English‚ one of the most spoken languages in the world‚ has a lot of variants. The most well-known English variants are British and American English. Although British and American English are the same language‚ they have some differences in vocabulary‚ pronunciation‚ grammar‚ and spelling (http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/usgbintr.html‚ 2011). However. one variant cannot be said to be superior to the other because both have been standardized (Kemmer‚2009). Despite
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3 1. British English and American English pronunciation 7 2. British English and American English vocabulary 10 3. British English and American English grammar 13 Conclusions 16 References 17 Introduction The object of this work is to study‚ analyse‚ and most importantly compare differences between two major branches of English language: American English (also called General American) and British English (also called UK English or English English). The term
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Two Kinds of English Most of us are familiar with the song lyrics “You say poTAYto and I say poTAHto‚ You say toMAYto and I say toMAHto.” These lyrics exemplify one of the differences between American and British English‚ the two most widely spoken varieties of global English. Despite the seemingly endless number of similarities between the two‚ significant differences between American English and British English in three specific linguistic areas make each one quite distinct from the other.
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literature is more personal. If history is about what is real or in the other hand‚ about fact‚ literature is about imagination‚ emotion and feeling. Most of the time‚ people read novels or poem in their free time for relaxing. If I have to choose between a historic documents and a novel‚ for example‚ “Gone with the wind”‚ I will take the novel because it’s more interesting and we can also study history in novel. For example‚ the novel “Pride and Prejudice” which was written by Jane Austen gives us
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There are many British words which are different to American words. For example: • A lorry is a slimmer truck. • A lift is an elevator. • A fortnight is two weeks. • A chemist is a person who works in a drugstore. • A dual carriageway is a freeway. Lisa and Sofia Efthymiou‚ an American mum and daughter‚ have listed below a few of the differences between British and American words. Visit also our Glossary of British Words We have arranged the words in categories to make
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